Linux-Misc Digest #42, Volume #21 Thu, 15 Jul 99 14:13:07 EDT
Contents:
ASF Player that plays video? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: any way to access MBR directly? (Leonard Evens)
Re: ASF Player that plays video? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Full Paths (Stewart Honsberger)
Newbie having major (probably stupid) problems, and lots of 'em (Eric Powell)
Re: Passthrough zip drive through printer? (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Lars Duening)
Fonts with Word Perfect 8 (Anand Singh Bisen)
Installation (from harddrive) failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CIA assassinations (Phillip Lord)
Re: Major RedHat 6.0 Disappointment (Curly++)
Re: Is CD-R usuable as backup medium on Linux? (William Burrow)
Re: Max memory linux can use (William Burrow)
Re: How can i increase block device buffer cache? (Mike Hall)
Re: Major RedHat 6.0 Disappointment ("David Eno")
Linux <-> Apple //c+ (Whiskey Mike)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? ("William Edward
Woody")
Re: tar not packing files starting with "." (NightFever)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? ("William Edward
Woody")
Re: ??: LILO And Hiding A Partition - Help?!?! (Michael Wilms)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Jerome Jahnke)
Re: chroot (Roland Latour)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: ASF Player that plays video?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:56:35 GMT
I've been searching for an ASF (Microsoft compressed media format) player
for Linux, and can only find one - but it only plays sound!
Does anyone know where I can find an ASF player that plays video as well as
audio? I don't need streaming, local files only.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any way to access MBR directly?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:15:49 -0500
"J�rgen Exner" wrote:
>
> Michael Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7m9k84$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I was running a dual boot setup with lilo in the MBR
> > and then decided to change things around so I went
> > ahead and formatted the drive. This wiped out both
> > the DOS and Linux partitions, but left the LILO
> > intact on the MBR. I eventually managed to "reset"
> > the MBR by installing DOS, then Win98, but I'm still curious
> > if there was a way to wipe out LILO manually?
>
> No problem. Assuming you are using a SCSI system:
> Simply "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda"
For a scsi disk it would be /dev/sda.
> plus you may want to restrict the size
> to 256 bytes (otherwise you would erase more then just the MBR; details
That's interesting. The first sector of the disk has 512 bytes.
Does this mean that only the first 256 bytes contain information
that may be changed by lilo? Does anyone know a ready source which
explains exactly how the MBR is ordinarily laid out?
> please see the man page of dd)
>
> jue
> --
> J�rgen Exner
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: ASF Player that plays video?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:28:24 GMT
On 15 Jul 1999 17:05:54 +0200, Ketil Froyn wrote:
>> I've been searching for an ASF (Microsoft compressed media format) player
>> for Linux, and can only find one - but it only plays sound!
>> Does anyone know where I can find an ASF player that plays video as well as
>> audio? I don't need streaming, local files only.
>
>I think there is one on www.microsoft.com (no kidding!).
Yeah - they plug the thing all over the place. An "x86 ELF binary for Linux",
but when you go to their download page, the only mention of *nix is;
"Microsoft Media Player for UNIX coming soon."
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Full Paths
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:29:23 GMT
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:58:36 +0100, Jon Skeet wrote:
>Alternatively, do
>
>cd /usr/bin
>./myprogram
Or, another idea - why not just add /usr/bin to your path?!
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: Eric Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: Newbie having major (probably stupid) problems, and lots of 'em
Date: 15 Jul 1999 16:31:05 GMT
O.K. every one, here's the deal: I know nothing of technical terms, so
please be gentle with your explanations (all I have is the Linux for
Dummies book), I have an 86C365 chipset (OK, stop your groanin'), it's
stuck on virtual screen mode, and I can't get my modem up. I've read and
read, some people say there is no server for the chipset, some say there
will be, and other say there is. Problem is, I can't get on-line
through linux because I can't get my modem up. I can't get my modem up
because I don't have the right display to get my control bar working
(which is the only way described in the Linux for Dummies book). I don't
have the right display because I don't have the right server. And I don't
have the right server because I can't get on-line. It's a vicious circle
that's tickin' me off. If there's a way to download the server via Win95
(am I allowed to say that here?) and install it in Linux (in which case,
I'd need step by step instructions on that), that would be peachy. As for
the virtual screen, I've read that I need to edit the XF86conf file,
problem is, I don't know where the file is or how to edit it (told you I
knew nothing). A few other things, windows says my modem is on COM3, but
Linux says there's nothing attached to cua2 (using statserial)(I have an
AOpen modem by the by); I can't get my sound card to work (I've gotten all
the I/O, IRQ, and DMA info, and I've tried every setting, doesn't work), I
have a YAMAHA OPL3-SAx. So... instructions on how to get the modem running
without using XWindows would be helpful, instructions on how to get rid of
the virtual screen would be nice, instructions on how to set up the server
once I get it would be peachy, instructions on how to get the sound card
running would aslo be appreciated. You can (if you so desire) to write me
at: [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have Instant Messenger (Shoopity), ICQ
(29140314), and Yahoo! Pager (Shoopity_Shoo_Shoo). Posting a time to be on
and walking me through step-by-step would be nice as well. And finally, I
guess I would settle at least for web sites that will answer my question if
you don't want to go through all the pain and trouble yourself. Thank you.
================== Posted via SearchLinux ==================
http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Passthrough zip drive through printer?
Date: 15 Jul 1999 09:02:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kevin Breit wrote:
> I am trying to print on my HP printer that runs off of Parallel Port. The
> cable goes: computer -> zip drive -> printer. How do I set that up so it will
> print?
You need to have kernel 2.2, or some 2.1.x that supports PPA, if you
want to use both at the same time; otherwise you have to recompile your kernel
setting the zip drive and the printer support as modules, and load/unload as
needed. After this, just print.
--
Did you *REALLY* check that interface between the chair and the keyboard?
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ #1383173 [Running Linux]
Electric Engineering at Polytechnic School, USP
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1980/ :: Unlimited Simulator Homepage
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Duening)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: 15 Jul 1999 15:50:13 GMT
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:23:33 -0500, Jerome Jahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars
> Duening) wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:00:23 -0500, Jerome Jahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > In article <pR7j3.18017$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > arcane*SPAM*[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Herborth) wrote:
> > >
> > > > BeOS is seen as a competitor (it's got a non-sucky GUI, it's got media
> > > > capabilities, its foundation blows MacOS completely out of the water),
> > > > therefore it's a threat.
> > >
> > > You can't sue [...] the entire case would be thrown out.
> >
> > These are two different things.
>
> You might think so, but one must vigorously protect such things. It has
> happened in a number of venues. If you let person x use your technology
> without licensing it, you can't say person y must license it. Apple has
> not extended special permission to use their technology to the LinuxPPC or
> (Net/Open)BSD communities, so even if they could sue Be if Be decided to
> do what these companies were doing they have a built in defense.
Well, "can't sue" means for me that Apple won't even be able to file a lawsuit
in the first place; "thrown out of court" means for me that the lawsuit was
filed and then (after Be's defense) dismissed. Money- and lawyerwise, I can
imagine that there is a difference.
--
Lars Duening; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Anand Singh Bisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Fonts with Word Perfect 8
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:09:48 +0530
Hello
I am a new bie to Linux and am having difficulties in installing
fonts to Word Perfect 8 in Redhat Linux 6.0... rather i am not able to
install any of then at all... what should i do please help me out...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installation (from harddrive) failure
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:10:34 GMT
Unable to make the Caldera distribution see my SCSI CD-ROM during
installation, I am tried to install from a hard drive copy of the
Caldera CD-ROM. Everything went smoothly until the copying of RPM's
began. The first file copy failed with a completely scrambled error
message like: "unable to copy Dev-3.filei.not.found". The next copy
failed with "unable to copy file 'unknown'". What's going on, and what
should I do? Please reply e-mail to <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 15 Jul 1999 16:51:27 +0100
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> Concentration of capital is undestood to be the natural
Richard> course of events by every serious economist, it's also
Richard> widely understood to be the current state of affairs; even
Richard> the mass media accepts it as obvious.
And by that well known Marxist organisation the UN, who
published a report on the concentration of wealth last week.
The problem is that people are so precious about
capitalism. And I understand why. It has its advantages (as indeed
Marx pointed out), but its producing such terrible inequalities of
oppurtunity, of physical resources, of access to energy and
information across the world. And its getting worse.
The current state of affairs is not stable, and can not last.
Even people like George Soros accept this. Our societies are neither
sustainable in terms of social cohesiveness, or in terms of
resources. Society has been re-invented before (modern day capitalism
pretty much was invented in the early 19'th century), and will
again. The last few times many people have died, starved, and much of
great value has been lost. Wouldnt it be nice to think that we have
learnt and we could go into it with foresight this time?
Phil
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From: Curly++ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Major RedHat 6.0 Disappointment
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:07:27 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Eno wrote:
>
> Here's my system configuration:
>
> PIII-450. Epox EP-BX3 CPU board. I can't find any reported conflicts here.
> 128M RAM
> Cirrus Logic 5465 AGP Graphics card.
> 3COM NIC (3CSM905B-TX-20)
> Soundblaster Vibra 16BIT
> USR 56K Modem
> No SCSI controllers.
>
> My system hangs when running X.
Which desktop? Have any X or desktop settings been changed?
I have yet to see a gnome user without a core dump in the
home directory. Try KDE if you want as fancy as you can
get, or try afterstep you want to use something a little
more stable until KDE and/or gnome have a few more kinks
worked out.
I'm using KDE on 6.0 without major problems. Gnome was
a little too hard to keep running.
--
Oisin "Curly++" Curtin
I HAVE MAIL: curlyplusplus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<sigh> Do the usual cleanup.
Coming soon: http://www.crosswinds.net/~curlyplusplus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Is CD-R usuable as backup medium on Linux?
Date: 15 Jul 1999 16:48:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:08:24 +0100,
gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>buy a "big" but cheap IDE drive. Spend some bucks on a 18 gig, or maybe
>a 10gig monster. (If your system is small, then go for even smaller).
>
>plug it in, and back-up and compress the backup to the new disk. This
>should allow for a number of backups to the same disk. It is not
>necessarily a good thing, but it is better than nothing. Frankly, I am
>intending to get a cheapish IDE disk (I use SCSI moslty), just for
>backup.
The CDR is possibly even cheaper than this technique, and doesn't have
the problem accidently doing ``something'' to the big drive and
destroying it. It is highly effective and maybe convenient too if you
want to back up an entire system.
>just a thought. you will end up spending a fortune at a third party
>backup "place".
The CDR has a high entry price, but usage is fairly cheap, $3 a gigabyte
or so (HDs are going for $15 or so a gigabyte). Spend the money up
front to save later....
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Max memory linux can use
Date: 15 Jul 1999 16:55:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:46:36 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It has 1 gig of ecc ram, a ami Raid controller with 3 9 gig SCSI's
>hardware 5 raided, etc, etc.
Linux can run with 1 gig no problems. Newer kernels can handle more
RAM.
>I ran this system for about 1 month with 4 users (mainly samba sharing)
>and it ran fine. Then this weekend I switched 40+ users off a novell
>machine onto Linux. Within hours linux froze. And I mean FROZE.
>After a reboot I had horrible disk errors and once corrected I had
>files that I had updated over an hour ago (like the printcap) hosed.
>
>The next day once I had tracked down the sync statement I was in the
>system and ran a manual sync (after re-creating my printcap) and the
>system froze again.
Hoo ha, sounds like hardware problems.
>I then went into the system and added append "mem=256m" (after an hour
>of fsk fixes) to my lilo and rebooted. The machine has been up now for
>2 days with no problems (I have run large file copies to the machine
>while also running manual syncs)
As someone else suggested, bad RAM modules might be the culprit. You
might find running memtest-86 (from metalab.unc.edu) for a few days
will detect the bad RAM (or maybe not, memory problems are hard to track
down).
Also, bad hardware elsewhere might be a problem, try swapping out the
CPU/mainboard as well if memory doesn't seem to be a problem. Nothing
like flaky hardware to ruin your day.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: Mike Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: How can i increase block device buffer cache?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:59:00 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to increase buffer cache of block device. i have 512Mb of RAM and
> want to use 400+MB of my memory as a cache buffer.
> Can any one help me for increasing this cachr buffer or guide me to some
> documentation.
Linux will use whatever it needs as a buffer cache.
If it decides that your memory is better used running a program
it will do that. If it finds that there is unused memory,
it uses it for the buffers.
My web-page has a little Tcl/Tk tool called SysBars
which shows me how memory and swap spaces are allocated.
Maybe it will help you, too!
Good luck!
--
Michael Hall
http://www.enteract.com/~mghall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David Eno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Major RedHat 6.0 Disappointment
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:10:13 GMT
Curly++ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> David Eno wrote:
> >
> > Here's my system configuration:
> >
> > PIII-450. Epox EP-BX3 CPU board. I can't find any reported conflicts
here.
> > 128M RAM
> > Cirrus Logic 5465 AGP Graphics card.
> > 3COM NIC (3CSM905B-TX-20)
> > Soundblaster Vibra 16BIT
> > USR 56K Modem
> > No SCSI controllers.
> >
> > My system hangs when running X.
>
> Which desktop? Have any X or desktop settings been changed?
>
> I have yet to see a gnome user without a core dump in the
> home directory. Try KDE if you want as fancy as you can
> get, or try afterstep you want to use something a little
> more stable until KDE and/or gnome have a few more kinks
> worked out.
>
> I'm using KDE on 6.0 without major problems. Gnome was
> a little too hard to keep running.
>
> --
> Oisin "Curly++" Curtin
>
> I HAVE MAIL: curlyplusplus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <sigh> Do the usual cleanup.
> Coming soon: http://www.crosswinds.net/~curlyplusplus
The system hangs with either desktop. :-(
Dave E.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Whiskey Mike)
Subject: Linux <-> Apple //c+
Date: 15 Jul 1999 11:38:38 -0500
I'm having a problem with my Linux workstation communicating with my
Apple //c+. It works fine in DOS...
My LinkSys Ether16 Combo LAN card is permanently set to IRQ 3, due to
previous IRQ conflicts in my system. No matter what I try to set it to,
the software won't let me set it to that because it says there's
conflicts... Unless I set it to IRQ 3, in which case there's no
problems... Under DOS. I can use a comm program using 9600bps to
communicate with the Apple//c+ using ProTERM and there's no problem. That
serial port in DOS is set to IRQ 3 and there's no conflicts because no NIC
drivers are loaded, so DOS doesn't "see" the NIC.
Ok. Back in Linux now, I used something similar to:
setserial /dev/cua1 irq 7 spd_cust divisor 12
to change that port's irq to 7 and drop the bps to 9600. (if the divisor
12 is not correct for 9600 please correct me!) There were more options,
but I can't recall them off the top of my head.
After that, I 'setserial -a /dev/cua1' and it reports that /dev/cua1 is
using IRQ 7. Great. I then 'echo test > /dev/cua1' and it takes 10 seconds
for the t (in test) to echo on the Apple side, then another 10 seconds for
the e. Then nothing else, and the echo command exits. While doing this, I
did a 'cat /proc/interrupts' and IRQ 7 is being used by serial.
So I was stumped. I did some deja reading, and found that I could try
stty 9600 < /dev/cua1
stty crtscts < /dev/cua1
But that ended up having the same results.
When I go into minicom and ^A M to initialize the modem, it takes 2
minutes for the complete init string to echo on the Apple side.
Upon further investigating, I tried 'cat /var/log/secure > /dev/cua1'
and it took about 5 minutes per line to echo on the Apple side. No dropped
characters, but excessively slow. While it was doing that, I did a 'tail
-f /var/log/messages' and discovered something strange. While a 'cat
/proc/interrupts' states that IRQ 7 is being used by serial,
/var/log/messages resulted in eth0 IRQ timeouts. (can't recall the exact
error message) - As soon as I killed the redirecting of /var/log/secure to
/dev/cua1, the eth0 IRQ timeouts disappeared.
So it was using IRQ 7 _and_ IRQ 3? That doesn't seem right, but that's
what my system was reporting.
Although it doesn't matter, there's a standard RS-232 cable connected to a
null modem connected to an 8 pin mini DIN. PC <-> Apple//c+.
Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?
The systems are described below. I'm detailing the //c+ for nostalgia's
sake :)
PC Apple //c+
dual p200 MMX 4mhz 65C02
64MB 128K
4MB video Composite out
8.4GB Maxtor (n/a)
6.4GB Maxtor (n/a)
6.4GB WDC (n/a)
LinkSys Ether16 Combo LAN card (n/a)
Soundblaster AWE32 Built in crappy sound
2 serial (RS-232) 8 pin mini DIN serial port
3.5" 1.44MB floppy 3.5" internal 800K floppy
RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel) ProDOS 8, v?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions to get Linux communicating with my
Apple!
Whiskey Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:03:37 -0700
John Kenneth Milli Grytten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> You are forgetting something here.. Apple are free to screw Linux anyday
> if they see that supporting LinuxPPC helps Be becoming a threat on the
> Macs.
Not necessarly. In the United States at least "timeliness is of
the essence" in any legal matter. That means that unless you act
"in a timely manner" when someone violates your intellectual
property, you lose the right to protect your intellectual
property.
What "timeliness" means is a subjective call. But in the case
of LinuxPPC, Apple was (1) aware for quite some time that the
LinuxPPC software runs on Apple's hardware, (2) that the LinuxPPC
organization is a commercial organization which makes
money selling CDs with LinuxPPC burned on it, and (3) that
LinuxPPC is engaged in the effort to spread Linux to all
PowerPC models of the Macintosh hardware.
It's clear that as LinuxPPC has been at this for quite some
time, and Apple has been aware of LinuxPPC's efforts. It's
clear that if Apple were to seek to sue LinuxPPC in the
future for violating intellectual property rights, they'd
be laughed out of court.
What's really bad about this "timeliness" consideration is
that you can lose your rights to your intellectual property
without really being aware that someone has taken your
stuff. That is, in some cases, companies have lost their
intellectual property not because they were aware of the
theft, but because they *should* have been aware of the
theft.
And once the intellectual property doors are open for one
company, they're open for all.
So if Be is suggesting they'd be sued for reverse engineering
Apple's hardware to support their operating system, they're
full of it. LinuxPPC has already opened the door, both in
terms of doing the engineering research and in terms of
opening the intellectual property doors.
And frankly, if Be can afford to hire a legal firm to set
up it's IPO, they can bloody well afford to send a junior
lawyer from a law firm to a court to file a motion to squash
any legal threats Apple may throw at it for porting the
BeOS to later model PowerPC Macintosh models.
- Bill Woody
The PandaWave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NightFever)
Subject: Re: tar not packing files starting with "."
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:09:09 GMT
you can try:
tar <your switches> <tarfile.tar> "*"
hope this helps
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:02:09 +0500, "Faisal Nasim"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How to make tar to pack files starting with "." ?
>
>It packs them in the sub-directories, but not in the initial directory where
>you started tar.
>
>
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From: "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:10:31 -0700
Lars Duening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> Well, "can't sue" means for me that Apple won't even be able to file a
lawsuit
> in the first place; "thrown out of court" means for me that the lawsuit
was
> filed and then (after Be's defense) dismissed. Money- and lawyerwise, I
can
> imagine that there is a difference.
There's actually more ways than that for a lawsuit to be thrown
out of court. Actually, the phrase "thrown out of court" is usually
applied to those cases which are summarily dismissed during
the motion phase before the case actually goes to trial. Before,
by the way, Be has an opportunity to present a forman defense.
There is a major monitary difference between getting a case
thrown out during the motion phase and having to go through
discovery to trial. A MAJOR difference: my parents were sued
by a homeowner (my parents are architects), but managed to
get their case thrown out after my father wrote a motion
suggesting that the case had no merit. Cost my parents less
than a grand: the cost to help my father write the motion.
But my parents represented themselves, and the case was
dismissed by the judge.
Going through discovery and to trial can cost many months
or even years of time and huge legal fees--this is one of
the reasons why many cases you hear about take a year or two
to eventually go to trial.
- Bill Woody
(Who knows more about our legal system than I'd like--having
been personally involved as a technical advisor during discovery,
as well as having parents caught in litigation a few times.)
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From: Michael Wilms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ??: LILO And Hiding A Partition - Help?!?!
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:13:15 +0200
John McKown wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:42:04 GMT, Douglas E. Mitton
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi All;
> [big snip]
>
> >
> >When the Win95 drive boots I just remap the drives so that Win95 is C:
> >and the old games drive is D: and the CDROM is E:.
...
and in addition:
If you give the CDROM under both, DOS and WIN, the drive letter Z:
(as I did), there will be no more problems...
Tschau,
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerome Jahnke)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:24:07 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars
Duening) wrote:
> Well, "can't sue" means for me that Apple won't even be able to file a lawsuit
> in the first place; "thrown out of court" means for me that the lawsuit was
> filed and then (after Be's defense) dismissed. Money- and lawyerwise, I can
> imagine that there is a difference.
Do you have any idea how our legal system works?? I can go to court and
sue anyone for anything I want. The terms "can't sue" and "thrown out of
court" are indeed synonomous.
Jer,
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From: Roland Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chroot
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:12:19 -0700
Posting reply to comp.os.linux.misc. Deleting references to
comp.os.linux.setup and comp.os.linux.networking
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Sorry to ask a question that's been posted before, but I couldn't find
> an answer that helped . . .
>
> When I type
> chroot /home/ftp ls (or /bin/ls)
> I get
> chroot: cannot execute ls: No such file or directory
>
> ls exists under the new root directory, as does anything else that it
> wants to open as shown by running ls under strace.
Are you saying you have /home/ftp/bin/ls ? Because once you chroot to
/home/ftp, anything outside that tree is gone, from the point of view
of the process. And making a link between /bin/ls and /home/ftp/bin/ls
won't help, because chroot won't follow links that point outside of
its now-secure tree.
--
Retired TechSupport Engr. Linux@CDSnet:http://home.cdsnet.net/~rolandl
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the
urge to rule." -H. L.Mencken
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